Obama has exited the stage, Clinton is touring her book, and Sanders is an independent again. The party's next leader is becoming clearer by the day.

With Trump in the White House, the gun lobby has transformed into a right-wing media outlet.

The party has been divided on foreign policy since Vietnam, but Trump's reckless stance on North Korea presents an opportunity to come together.

Bernie Sanders's speech at Westminster College was an attempt to break through the calcified ideologies of the national security establishment.

A new poll shows the party's base is losing patience. Women at the Congressional Black Caucus' annual conference explain why.

Progressive activists are preparing for the worst, but the party has been largely silent. Bernie Sanders is hoping to fill that void later this week.

His willingness to make $400,000 speeches to Wall Street suggests that he has not adjusted to the new political landscape.

I argued that demographics favored the Democrats. I was wrong.

Hillary Clinton's loss to Trump was blamed partly on her wonky nuance. Should Bernie Sanders's simplicity represent the party's future?

Ravi Gupta is recruiting a fresh slate of candidates to take down Trump. But can a former Obama staffer forge a new path for Democrats?

The GOP's inconsistency on disaster relief is just the latest evidence of the party's procedural hypocrisy.

Two books by former Obama staffers are a reminder of what it’s like to have a sane administration.

The country has a long, maddening history with for-profit colleges—and the blame is bipartisan.

A look inside the massive immigration enforcement apparatus that Obama built up—and that Trump is now exploiting.

The DNC is lagging its Republican counterpart, even though the progressive base is energized to take Donald Trump down.

America’s anti-immigrant, enforcement-first framework has been decades in the making. Can Democrats undo it?

The president doesn't pretend to represent all citizens—just his most hardcore supporters.

His threats against North Korea expose the many dangers of the White House's post-9/11 powers. Here's what Congress must do.

An unlikely coalition of Trump voters, lefty activists, and indigenous people is trying to stop the construction of a power line in New Hampshire. What does it bode for the future of politics?